🐍 Shifting shape, stepping back, spinning off, scaling deep, sharing openly, shedding a snake skin, sssss… — 1/ In summary: Dear Huddlecraft community, collaborators and friends… 🗞️ I have some news to share today: the time is coming for me to step back from my role as Huddlecraft Chief Exec, to make way for another chapter, for Huddlecraft and for me. At the end of March 2024 I will leave…

What difference can joining a peer group make to people’s lives over time? — I asked 9 Huddle participants, who all completed their Huddles several years ago, to send me a voicenote sharing what might never have happened in their lives, if they hadn’t huddled. Conveying the multi-layered and sometimes intangible benefits that peer groups can have is an ongoing communication challenge! When the…

Peer-led learning journeys for the Collective Imagination Practice Community: incubating collective imagination practice. — As part of our programme of activity for the Collective Imagination Practice Community across 2023–24, a series of deeper, peer-led learning journeys (known as Huddles) will be popping up around the world, hosted by members of the community. Some will begin in the summer, others in autumn.

The transformative potential I see in Open Collective 👀(transparent money management tool) — I’m working on 2 projects, both using Open Collective in slightly different ways, and both highlighting the interesting potential held by Open Collective for changing how we collaborate, how we organise our governance, and how we work together. This blog contains: A little bit about both projects, for context.

£150k is available for distribution with the aim of growing and deepening the field of collective imagination practice. To be administered lightly with and for the Community. — Quick links (read on for full info about the fund): Join our mailing list for the Collective Imagination Practice Community. Read more about our whole programme of activity for 2023–24. NEWS: an additional £50k contribution to the Practice Fund has been committed by Arising Quo, who have a particular focus…

Insights from a discussion between 4 speakers with experience from 4 different movements — This blog post collects just some of the nuggets of wisdom from the conversation. “We can create a far greater pace of change through peer learning.” Background to the event Huddlecraft hosted this event in April 2023 to co-inquire into the following question: Can peer-to-peer learning amplify, deepen…

Be part of a network of imagination practitioners, learning together and drawing on a £100k practitioner’s fund to evolve the practice of collective imagination — Join our mailing list. Watch back the recording of our recent launch event. Fin CONTENTS Introduction A programme of activities What’s a Huddle? Ways to engage this year Key dates The £100k practitioner’s fund What we hope to create and achieve together

1/5 posts reflecting on experiments in doing work differently — ← Back to the list of all 5 posts In 2022 Enrol Yourself (a limited company), became Huddlecraft (a Community Interest Company) after working on this transition across 2021–22, for what felt like ages! I’ve captured reflections below. 💡 Why did we decide to do it? When Enrol Yourself Ltd was reaching 4 years old, we were finding…

5 posts reflecting on 5 experiments in doing work differently — We did A LOT of change in 2022. From changing our legal structure, to changing the way we pay people (and how much we pay them), to reducing our working hours… We had more changes than hours in the day. …